Invisible Illness Support

When movement advice doesn’t match your reality

Many people living with invisible illness are given exercise advice that ignores fatigue, pain, dizziness, flares, or nervous system instability. You might be told to “build consistency”, “push through”, or follow generic programs that don’t account for the variability of your condtion.

Over time, this can lead to crashes, symptom flares, fear around movement, or the sense that your body is failing.

It’s not. The approach is.

Who this support is for

I work with people living with conditions including:

• Fibromyalgia / Persistant Pain
• POTS and other forms of dysautonomia
• ME/CFS
• hEDS and HSD
• MCAS
• Multi-system conditions with symptoms that don’t meet diagnostic thresholds.

Many of the people I support live with more than one condition. Sessions are shaped around that complexity, not simplified away from it.

How I work

I take a pacing-based, capacity-aware approach to movement. That means:

• adjusting plans session by session
• working with symptoms rather than ignoring them
• prioritising regulation, safety, and recovery time
• separating movement from punishment or productivity

Movement might look like strength work, gentle conditioning, positional changes, breath-based work, or very small amounts of activity spread across the day. Sometimes the work is about doing less, not more.

There is no expectation that your capacity stays the same week to week.

Lived experience matters

I live with dysautonomia, and that lived experience shapes how I work. I understand what it’s like to have a body that doesn’t respond predictably, where energy, heart rate, dizziness, or tolerance can shift without warning.

My work is informed by my own experience, clinical training, and the lived experiences of the people I work with. I take symptom reports seriously. You don’t need to justify or prove how your body feels.

A flexible, supportive space

Sessions are designed to help you understand how your body responds to movement and how you can manage your symptoms in the moment. This often starts with building a symptom profile so we can see how your symptoms respond to different types of movement and plan in ways that sidestep known triggers.

Once we’ve found a base of movement that feels tolerable, we can gradually explore progress in directions that are manageable and don’t provoke symptoms or fear. You stay in control. You decide what feels tolerable and manageable, not me.

The goal is never progress in a straight line. First comes understanding. From there, we work towards supporting your quality of life, functional capacity, and relationship with movement over time.